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[ban-ish] / ˈbæn ɪʃ /


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We should banish it, because I’ve learned the hard way that it’s too abstract.

From Slate Apr. 20, 2026

He also claims that the prince fears that his brother, the future king, "could remove all the Sussexes' titles and effectively banish him from Britain".

From BBC Mar. 14, 2026

He observes that labeling certain feelings as negative justifies attempts to banish them, but he counsels doing the opposite.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 27, 2026

Moments later Cronin was grabbing the kid’s shirt and leading him to the baseline, where he ordered an assistant coach to remove him from the court area and banish him to the locker room.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 18, 2026

Please banish Gogolev’s appalling verses from your mind at once.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Mary appears to have a form of treatment-resistant schizophrenia, until chemotherapy, following a diagnosis of lymphoma, banishes her psychiatric symptoms.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

This World Cup win at least banishes one of Egypt's ghosts.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

It banishes darkness, conveys telecommunications signals between continents and makes visible the invisible, from faraway galaxies to the smallest bacterium.

From Science Daily May 23, 2024

But Rama soon hears that his subjects are gossiping about Sita’s purity and banishes her to the forest once more — this time alone, while pregnant.

From Salon Nov. 11, 2023

And then something happens that banishes even that mystery from my head.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Now she has been banished along with fruit and vegetable sellers to a vacant lot with lower foot traffic, her turnover roughly halving as a result.

From Barron's Jun. 2, 2026

The briefings, he insisted, were the "worst attack on a faithful" since rugby player Joe Marler had been banished in the finale of hit TV show Celebrity Traitors.

From BBC May 13, 2026

Too quiet, many locals say, because off-road vehicles and beach camping have been temporarily banished from San Luis Obispo County’s Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area since April 14.

From Los Angeles Times May 5, 2026

In January, the New Mexico Supreme Court banished the lawsuits, calling them “anachronistic” and “dehumanizing.”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 18, 2026

“I thought he was gone. We banished him from the village a long time ago. I was Leader then.”

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

Five years later, Madison Square Garden was planted atop it, banishing sunlight and driving commuters into a subterranean maze of passageways.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 2026

South Korea has an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment -- the last prisoners were executed in 1997 -- with a death sentence effectively banishing Yoon to life behind bars.

From Barron's Feb. 19, 2026

In case you’ve forgotten where “Stranger Things” left us, Vecna revealed that Eleven accidentally created him by banishing him to the Upside Down.

From Salon Nov. 24, 2025

But the proposed move has largely been perceived as banishing the journalist to a TV backwater where viewers and advertisers dollars are scant.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 28, 2025

And then Anna’s mother was flinging open the front door and pointing, as if banishing her to the desert.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli




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